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Bill to merge juvenile justice agencies up next week

Big hearing on Wednesday on the juvenile justice front: The House Corrections Committee will hear Chairman Jerry Madden's HB 1915, "Relating to abolishing the Texas Youth Commission and the Texas Juvenile Probation Commission and transferring the powers and duties of those agencies to the newly created Texas Juvenile Justice Department and to the functions of the independent ombudsman for the Texas Youth Commission."I've been focused elsewhere and have yet to read the lengthy bill, much less analyze in detail exactly what it would do. I'm not sure who has outside of those directly involved in its drafting - I've seen few if any journalistic nor bureaucratic analyses of the legislation so far. So I suspect we'll learn a lot at this hearing about the details of the proposal as well as the interests and criticisms of various stakeholders...continue to full post

Full post as published by Grits for Breakfast on March 05, 2011 (boomark / email).